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Archive for September, 2011

IEEE MGA Awards Nominations

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

Last Call for IEEE MGA Awards Nominations: Deadline 15 October

 

You can help recognize the efforts of outstanding volunteers by nominating individuals for one of the prestigious IEEE Member and Geographic Activities (MGA) Awards.  Each award has a unique mission and criteria and offers the opportunity to honor distinguished colleagues, inspiring teachers, and corporate leaders.

If you know someone who has made substantial regional contributions through innovative projects, exemplary leadership, service, or by fulfilling the goals of transnational activities, please consider nominating them for one of the following awards:

 

 

Earlier this year, the MGA Awards and Recognition Committee and the IEEE Region Awards Chairs worked to pilot the MGA Outstanding Section Award submission process through an online portal.  Due to the success of this pilot, the portal is also being used for the submission of the above MGA awards.  Nominators can submit nominations, endorsers can upload endorsement letters, and reviewers can review and rank nominations, all within the online system.

 

Please visit the MGA Award Nomination web page to review the nominator guidelines and eligibility requirements, reference the step-by-step submittal instructions, and link to the portal for nominations.

 

The deadline for nominations is 15 October 2011. 

Please note: As this is still a pilot program, all feedback about the new online portal is welcome, so that we may continually work to improve the IEEE MGA Awards process.  Please email questions and/or feedback to MGA Awards.

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High Speed Signal Integrity

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Seminar

High Speed Signal Integrity:  What’s Its all About and How it Affects the Quality of Our Lives

Presented by:

Maxwell Robertson 
Applications Engineer
Texas Instruments
Dallas, Texas

William M. Sherry Ph.D.
Manager, Business Development, Systems and Applications Engineering
Texas Instruments
Dallas, Texas
 
ABSTRACT:

Achieving the quality of service expected by internet users in the presence of ever increasing internet traffic and congestion forces service providers to install higher and higher bandwidth connections.  These higher bandwidth connections demand that system engineers and applications engineers pay close attention to the electrical design of the high frequency “transmission” lines, e.g. copper cables or pcb copper traces carrying these payloads to ensure robust high speed performance is achieved in the network.   These “transmission” lines, present in PCs, networking,switching or data center equipment, greatly influence the integrity of the transmitted signal.

During this talk we will cover the fundamental design considerations for robust high-speed signal traces and present practical examples of printed circuit board layout.  We will discuss how signals propagate over transmission lines, what sorts of issues arise in real-world systems, and how these issues can be detected and resolved.  We will also present some examples of how  applications engineers work together with customers to achieve system-level performance goals.

 
TOPICS:

1. Signal propagation over transmission lines
2. Singal Integrity issues (and how to avoid them)
3. Eye Diagrams and Jitter
4. Signal Integrity characterization and simulation
5. Links/Further reading

 
Place: UPR Mayaguez, Auditorium Stefani Building S-113
Date: September 27, 2011 @  6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Cost: Free

Registration at: http://ece.uprm.edu/icdl/Page/seminars/seminars.php

Note: This seminar has credits from Colegio de Ingenieros,  and from UPRM  CEP (for professors and students)

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